Machine Learning Reading Group
Spring 2010
Welcome to the Machine Learning Reading Group at Brown University. We meet in CIT 3rd Floor Atrium on most Fridays at 12:00pm and are open to all students and faculty. (If you can't make this time, please email the group leader.) MLRG meetings and other news are announced via posts to the ML-READING-GROUP list. You can subscribe here. The MLRG leader this semester is Jason Pacheco. If you have an ongoing or just-completed project involving machine learning, please offer to lead a session!
Schedule
Date | Topic | Discussion leaders |
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Feb 5 | Occlusive Components Analysis J. Lücke, R. Turner, M. Sahani, M. Henniges |
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Feb 12 | Posterior vs Parameter Sparsity in Latent Variable Models J. Graca, K. Ganchev, B. Taskar, F. Pereira |
Micha Elsner |
Feb 19 | Learning A Small Mixture of Trees M. P. Kumar, D. Koller |
Stu Black |
Mar 5 | Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for
Visualisation of High Dimensional Data N. Lawrence |
Dae Il Kim |
Mar 19 | Estimating the "Wrong" Graphical Model: Benefits in the Computation-Limited Setting M. J. Wainwright |
Dan Klein |
Mar 26 | New Outer Bounds on the Marginal Polytope D. Sontag, T. Jaakola |
Jason Pacheco |
Apr 16 | Particle Belief Propagation A. Ihler, D. McAllester |
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Apr 22 | Convex Optimization: Lagrange Dual Sec. 5.1, 5.2 S. Boyd, L. Vandenberghe |
Jason Pacheco |